easy chicken parm is the best.
What could be more delicious than this easy Chicken Parm? This dish comes together in minutes and everyone loves this dish. Cook your favorite pasta, use your favorite jarred marinara sauce, top with the crispy delicious chicken and some parmesan cheese, fresh mozzarella or provolone, that's it!
Ingredients
For the Chicken
- 1 cup flour seasoned with salt and pepper
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- 2 large boneless/skinless chicken breast halved lengthwise
- olive oil for frying
- 1 lb pasta
For the sauce
- 1 jar of your favorite pasta sauce or your homemade sauce (see my link in the post)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a casserole dish or sheet pan large enough to hold your 4 chicken filets.
- Set up your dredging station: Whisk together your eggs with a splash of water in a shallow dish. Set up another dish with the flour seasoned with a little salt and pepper. In a 3rd dish add the panko, parmesan cheese and Italian bread crumbs.
- Pound your chicken breast out between 2 pieces of chicken wrap. Cust them down the middle to make 4 pieces.
- Heat enough extra virgin olive oil in a skillet to cover the bottom. Heat to medium high.
- Place each piece of chicken in the flour, then the egg mixture, then the final bread crumb mixture.
- Add to the skillet and cook until golden brown on both sides. Remove to a wire rack as they are done. Continue until all of them have been cooked.
- Heat your sauce. Pour a layer of the sauce in the bottom of your baking dish. Place your cooked breaded chicken on top of the sauce. Add a little sauce to each piece of chicken, then top with a sprinkle of Parmesan, then the sliced mozzarella or the provolone.
- Place in the oven and cook until the cheese has melted and the sauce is bubbling, 15 to 20 minutes.
- While your chicken is cooking bring a large pot of sated water to a boil and add our pasta of choice. I used spaghetti. When done, drain and toss in some of the sauce.
- To serve, divide the pasta among 4 plates. Top each plate with the chicken breast, spooning any remaining sauce over each dish.